Forget Baby Reindeer, an Even Darker Drama Based on Real Crime Arrives on Netflix Soon

Summary:

• Netflix is going to release another series, based on real-life events, combining the genres of true crime and drama in it.
• It’s going to explore the mysterious death of a teenage girl in Spain.

Right now, Netflix’s global chart is dominated by Baby Reindeer, a horrifying drama based on the actor and comedian Richard Gadd's real-life experience of being stalked and assaulted. Besides, the audience is still not over What Jennifer Did, a true-crime documentary, following the murder of the parents organized by their own daughter.

However, what if we try to mix a dramatic aspect and a real-life source of the featured events? We’ll get the upcoming mystery thriller miniseries, coming next week.

The new six-episode series is based on the crime, which, back in 2013, shocked the public not only in Spain, but around the whole world. On September 21, Alfonso Basterra and Rosario Porto reported their adopted daughter Asunta was missing.

However, after the police found the dead body of the girl next to a road outside Santiago de Compostela, it was revealed that the 12-year-old child died from asphyxiation and huge amounts of Lorazepam, an anxiety medication that was found in her organism.

Not delving much into spoilers, Netflix’s show will explore the true story behind the girl’s death and the very family of Basterra, which turned out to be not as happy as they were constantly trying to prove to their neighbors and, later, to the police.

Previously, there was a four-part documentary series about the case of Asunta Basterra. which debuted in 2017 and was made available internationally on Netflix in 2019. It appeared to be so successful that it gave the platform’s producers the idea of developing the show of this story, which is going to depart from it only in small details.

The upcoming Spanish series will star Candela Peña (Take My Eyes, A Gun in Each Hand) and Tristán Ulloa (Sex and Lucía, Berlin) and feature the real locations, where the bloody crime happened, the land of Galicia and, particularly, Santiago de Compostela.

Titled The Asunta Case, it will continue the current trend of Netflix’s true-crime domination, although it’s not a documentary like What Jennifer Did, but a thriller series. Such a way of depicting the real crime may add to its specularity and deeper investigation of the inner conflicts, which haunted Basterra and Porto at the time.

The crime series is scheduled to be aired on April 26, so brace yourself for yet another dark story!